Absence in conversation with artists and curators @ Open Eye Gallery

A panel discussion at Open Eye Gallery to accompany the launch of Absence.

Curators and several of the exhibiting artists will discuss their work and the challenges of picturing what resits to be shown: how absence features more broadly in photography, the ethics and politics of picturing absence, how they capture it in their work, how their work speaks to other pieces in the exhibition.

Absence (exhibited at Stable Gallery) will be discussed in conversation with Self-Defined. New Stories from Archives, exhibited at Open Eye Gallery, exploring the use of archives in contemporary photography to highlight omissions, memories and historical narratives.

Speakers: Terence Heng, David Schalliol, Paweł Starzec, Gesche Würfel, Laura Harris, Maike Potschulat.

The discussion will be followed by a reception at Open Eye Gallery with an opportunity to meet artists and curators.

With support from: The British Academy, Liverpool John Moores University, University of Southampton.